Although turnout was low, I think those of us who showed up managed to learn a few things.  The IRC channel and the webcasts from other cities were particularly useful.  Thanks to Greg, Lisa, and Dan for setting this up!

Here’s my thoughts on what we could spend time on this Saturday:

• SDK and tools installation for folks who don’t have them yet.
• Knowledge sync: Who knows the most about _____
  • Homebrew
  • The Mojo framework
  • The services API
  • Operating the SDK’s virtual Pre
• Watch the Mitch Allen “intro to WebOS developent” webcast recording
• Pre Hacking Time Trials: How quickly can we ______
  • get a Hello World Mojo app running on a Pre
  • get a homebrew app installed on a Pre
  • get to a shell running on a Pre
  • get gcc running on a Pre
• Join #predevcamp on Freenode IRC, watch any live webcasts from other PreDevCamp locations or other PreDevCamp-oriented streaming video.
• Drive by the Precentral.net homebrew forum, locate and discuss interesting threads.

1.  A Laptop running one of the 3 supported operating systems in at least a virtual machine if not as the main OS (32 bit windows -xp or vista, Mac OSX, Linux)

2.  A thumb drive or a cd with the SDK to share with your neighbor if they forget it. Get it at http://developer.palm.com

3.  Your coolest geek shirt. Don’t have one? you still have time to order one from think geek

4. An Idea of what you want to build or help build.

5. Your palm pre – you have one right? if not you will have several chances to win one. Ideally in developer mode.

6. Graphic Design software if you’re a designer – Adobe Fireworks works best. Get the trial here.

7. An IDE – Eclipse works best and palm has special plugins for it.  http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1639

8. Paper or a notebook for sketching ideas and notes. – Portable whiteboards are cool too.

9. Hacker / devhouse  / excitement to learn / can do spirit  – without this you will have no fun, and at the end of the day I hope that is what you have.

10.  Have a great camp!

Commenter gaffo adds: ” you should have Git installed as it seems to be the defacto hacker (especially pre) source control system. A github account would also be a good idea.”

Houston PreDevCamp on August 8th, 2009 will be at Coffee Groundz, 2503 Bagby St. (at the south end of the shopping center that faces onto McGowan, between Bagby and Brazos.)  Desks, power outlets, and wireless Internet are available there, although you may want to arrive early to ensure a good seat.  The Coffee Groundz management welcomes us and asks only that we please buy something (a drink or a snack) while we’re there.

http://www.coffeegroundz.net/

2503 Bagby on Google Maps Street View

Start time will be 8am.  I’ll post an agenda later today.

Hi, Houston PreDevCamp organizer Anthony Garcia here.  We need a venue for Houston PreDevCamp this Saturday, August 8th.  The people at the Caroline Collective coworking space are usually closed on Saturdays but have tentatively offered to open up and host PreDevCamp in return for a $10/person drop-in donation.  I am not affiliated with Caroline Collective and have never been there myself.  If anyone else has some space available that would offer the amenities needed (quiet meeting space, a projector, Internet access) at a more affordable rate, please speak up.

EDIT: Caroline Collective has withdrawn their tentative offer citing inability to staff the location on Saturday.  Please get in touch with me at libe...@gmail.com with your venue ideas.